No cradle holds an innocent one!
(Henry Law, "Beacons of the Bible" 1869)
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"Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me!"Psalm 51:5
"All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature, and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath!"Ephesians 2:3
When Adam fell, man's heart became entirely
corrupt. "Every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time!" "Every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood." Genesis 6:5, 8:21
Now, corruption can only propagate
corruption.
When evil fills the heart,
evil effects will soon appear.
From tainted sources, tainted waters flow.
The root proclaims the qualities of its fruit.
When poison permeates the veins,
the whole body sickens.
The parent reproduces his own likeness.
Hence every child is born in sin.
No cradle holds an innocent one!
Each offspring of the human
family comes into the world . . .
dead towards God,
corrupt in heart,
prone to iniquity,
void of all righteousness,
a willing slave of his father, Satan,
blinded in intellect,
a pilgrim towards a diabolical land,
a vessel fitted for destruction!
His heart has many tenants, but God is no
longer there.
The palace once so fair, is now
overrun with weeds. Like Babylon in ruins, wild beasts of the wilderness roam there, and the houses are full of doleful creatures. Isaiah 13:21, 22
May this darksome
picture scare you from delusion's dream!
Reader, surely such is your birth state!
Has your soul realized the dreadful truth?
Has the life giving Spirit quickened you with
regenerating might? Are you a new creation in
Christ Jesus? If so, then surely you will praise God for His marvelous mercy and grace in saving you.
"He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness,
and brought us into the kingdom of the Son He loves,
in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins!" Colossians 1:13, 14